A few days ago Fatih posted this question on twitter. I’m going to attempt to give my answer, however to do that I need to apply some simplifications as my previous attempts to answer it involved a lot of phrases like a pointer to a pointer, and other unhelpful waffling. Hopefu...
Introduction In most of the reviews for this post, I was asked why choose a graph database over something else? This is a hard question to answer since my experience right now is limited on the graph database side. My guess is you’re wondering the same thing, so this is my best...
Introduction In most of the reviews for this post, I was asked why choose a graph database over something else? This is a hard question to answer since my experience right now is limited on the graph database side. My guess is you’re wondering the same thing, so this is my best...
An overview of what's coming in the Go 1.15 final release in August 2020 (LWN.net).
Welcome to the first article from the series covering how to build business-oriented applications in Go! In this series, we want to show you how to build applications that are easy to develop, maintain, and fun to work with in the long term. The idea of this series is to not foc...
Conventional wisdom dictates that the larger the number of types declared in a Go program, the larger the resulting binary. Intuitively this makes sense, after all, what’s the point in defining a bunch of types if you’re not going to write code that operates on them....
When I say “testable code”, what I mean is code that can be easily programmatically verified. We can say that code is testable when we don’t have to change the code itself when we’re adding a unit test to it. It doesn’t matter if you’re follow...
In the previous post I discussed how leaf inlining allows the Go compiler to reduce the overhead of function calls and extend optimisation opportunities across function boundaries. In this post I’ll discuss the limits of inlining and leaf vs mid-stack inlining. The limits o...
A discussion with Tibor and Geanluca about Docker buildkit and GoReleaser.